The Travel and Learn Italian book helped me tremendously on my trip to Italy. It made my trip easy and was able to interact with people in Venice without any major issues. I highly recommend the book to anyone traveling to Italy.

A. Yabi, Chicago IL.

I just love the Conversational Italian phrase book!!! It will take some time for the meanings to sink in, but in the meantime, it’s fun just to say the words aloud.

M. Barthel, Peoria IL

If you want to learn to speak and understand the Italian language in an easy to understand format, you cannot go wrong with these Conversational Italian books offered by Stella Lucente!

R. Litwin, Peoria IL

Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy!

Our book, Conversational Italian for Travelers is unique in that it functions both to teach the Italian language in a gradual, understandable way, and to serve as a reference book for important travel phrases, basic and intermediate grammar, verb conjugations, numbers, and the idiomatic expressions spoken by real Italians today.

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Discover Italy

The country of Italy is actually a peninsula, easily identified by its boot-like shape jutting out from the heart of Europe. It extends from the Alpine mountains of Switzerland and Austria in the north into the Mediterranean Sea, and includes the large islands of Sardinia and Sicily, which bring it almost to the tip of Africa.

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About Kathryn Occhipinti

Learn Italian as I did, with my Conversational Italian for Travelers series of books! I was born into a family that loves to travel and I have spent many happy hours exploring Italy and getting to know my Italian “relatives” and their language and culture.

Most importantly, my books are friendly and combine travel tips and humorous anecdotes that truly make learning the Italian language come alive!

Italian Culture

The Conversational Italian for Travelers textbook begins each chapter with a dialogue from a story about the character Caterina, an American girl who travels to Italy to visit her relatives. As the story continues from one chapter to the next, we learn Italian, and about Italy, in an engaging way through Caterina’s experiences. Read our latest episode about how to navigate the canals in Venice by clicking HERE

Italian Food ( Recipes)

Italian-American Shrimp ScampiShrimp with linguine, scampi style, is an Italian-American favorite for a Christmas Eve fish dinner. It is amazing that a dish this simple can be so delicious. It is a real crowd-pleaser, loved by adults and children alike, and perfect as the first course for an Italian Christmas Eve celebration Click here for the Italian recipe.

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By acquiring fundamentals of conversational Italian, you will be able to easily ask for directions or order a meal which will make your trip much easier and more fun.

Our first book which is now available, Conversational Italian for Travelers, is unique in that it serves to teach the Italian language in a gradual, understandable way, and can also be used as a reference book for frequently used expressions spoken by Italians today.